The Country of the Pointed Firs was originally distributed in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly magazine in 1896. Jewett compiled and revised the story and it first was published in its entirety by Houghton Mifflen and Company (Boston and New York) in 1896.
Following Jewett's Death on June 24th 1909, Houghton and Mifflen reissued The Country of the Pointed Firs as part of a series of Jewett's work. The second edition, published in 1910, included two new stories: "A Dunnet Shepardess" (originally published in December 1899 in the Atlantic Monthly) and "William's Wedding" (left unfinished when Jewett's died and originally published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1910). In 1919, "The Queen's Twin" (originally published inthe Atlantic Monthly in February 1899) was also included in the text.
The three additional stories that have been inserted before the final chapter of the original publication in many editions differ in form and chronology from the rest of the novella. In the interest of recapturing the integrity of the original, the Storyforms version of the text has excised the three additional stories from the copytext distributed from the Bartleby project and restored the chapter order of the 1896 Houghton Mifflen edition.
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